I cant add music to my iphone in iTunes 11

It worked but it erased my other music and I didnt want it to erase it.

I finally figured it out. After going to VIEW and SHOW SIDEBAR, I unplugged and plugged iphone back in. Once it shows up I clicked on MUSIC at the top center and then SYNC MUSIC and checked which playlists I wanted to include. That's it! Good luck!

Hi evan, i followed you all the way up until the "add to" part. where is the "add to" tab/how do i get to that?

thanks

I have a 4s and mac book pro and also had this problem. Clicking the 'add to' button, and nothing happens. I can't get any music onto my iphone. Apple needs stop forcing updates that are full of problems. Go back to the click and drag with the old itunes everyone knows. This new crap is turning customers off of apple products. FIX THE PROBLEM!!!

Reading this thread, it is clear that multiple factors can prevent a user from adding songs to an iPhone in iTunes 11. One of them is having iTunes Match enabled for the phone.

That is very frustrating. I am strongly considering getting rid of Match just because of the complication it introduces. Who does this benefit?!? Not the end-user.

Guys i think i got the solution, it´s nothing about itunes match or whatever...

After you connect your device, go to "summary" tab and check "manually manage music and videos" on "options" in the bottom part. Now i can drag and drop directly from finder. I have also post my actual screenshot in the spanish version. I hope this resolve the issue.

Cheers,

Rafa

You can only have your iPhone synced to one iTunes library at a time (annoying I know). This is to prevent you from plugging your phone into your mates computer and adding his/her "purchases" to your iPhone.

As the user above says, when your phone is plugged in, click on your iPhone on the left hand side of the screen. On the main page scroll down to the bottom where it says Options. If you want to manually drag and drop music to your phone selet 'Manually Manage music and videos'. Unfortunetly, if your phone is synced to another iTunes library you will have to erase and re-sync to the new library and then you will be able to add content.

I did this:

1. Went to "iPhone" menu (either top right at the bar near the "iTunes Store" or at the side menu on the left, if You have it on).

2. In the iPhone menu I went to "Music".

3. I clicked "Sync Music", it asked to confirm or sth like that... I did not confirm.

4. I selected "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres".

5. I approved that selection, don't remember how exactly.

6. This caused erasing all of my entire iPhone music content and assigning my iPhone to my music library ( let's say wow! ;).

7. Now I can put all my music from iTunes library to my iPhone freely, no harm to my Itunes library was made.

It works just like it did before - drag and drop.

Just one thing:::::if You have anything in Your iPhone music that You don't have at the iTunes library, You will most probably loose it. So beware.

p.s.

I needed one or two drinks before I found enough courage to do this above and not to feel too much sorry for the content I thought I could loose. A success.

Hope this helps some of You.

Apple! Better is the worst enemy of good. Remember that.

[A] 1 track will NOT sync from my iTunes Library to my iPhone 5c. I have tried re-downloading the 1 track from iTunes again and still would not sync from my iTunes library to my iPhone 5c. I also tried deleting all music from my iPhone 5c and re-syncing music from my iTunes library again but these 3 tracks still won't sync to my iPhone 5c!!!! I've also tried re-setting the iPhone 5c to factory settings from iTunes and then re-downloading the 1 track from iTunes Purchases and it STILL won't sync from iTunes Library to my iPhone 5c!!!!

[B]

I am also unhappy with the fact iTunes library has been 'deleting' various artwork/album covers of tracks that I have uploaded to iTunes Match - for my music to be available to all my devices! These are tracks which I've not bought from iTunes but I've gathered over 20yrs and it's extremely irritating that iTunes deliberately deletes album artwork for no other reason than it's no longer available in iTunes Store! This is not why I use iTunes Match for in order for most of the album artwork for tracks NOT purchased from iTunes Store to be deleted permanently! Apple must find a way of making sure that tracks uploaded to iTunes Match in the Cloud are not deleted of their Artwork/album covers because iTunes Store simply does not have this available at present!

[C]

A lot of tracks that I've bought as 'Singles' from iTunes Store - after a short period after purchase date, these tracks lose their Artwork/Album covers from iTunes Store. However if you search for these tracks from iTunes Store, these tracks are STILL available with Artwork/Album covers. However these don't get downloaded/updated after iTunes Match/Genius Update to my music library in iTunes on my Macbook. Why is this as this is extremely irritating and time consuming trying to find updates which clearly exist and available in iTunes Store?

Summary

Apple Inc.....it's obvious that you presume some of us minions are absolute 'monkeys' in terms of being able to use your applications! First, your Support SLA's are just beyond words for a service not fit for purpose! Bascially music not purchased from iTunes Store is subject to (a) Losing any orginal artwork/album covers when synced with 'iTunes Match' in order to save your music library in iCloud and make it available to all your devices.....due to tracks unable to be matched to music in iTunes Store....(b) If we purchased tracks from 'Singles' as opposed to 'Albums'.....after a short period of time, during iTunes Match 'updates' the relevant artwork/album covers then vanish....until you search for relevant tracks - and artists's album in iTunes Store to restore artwork/album covers. What is even more amazing is that if we were to turn-off 'iTunes Match' or saving any furture purchases in iCloud.......then what a surprise....presto.....YOU CAN'T SYNC NEW PURCHASED TRACKS FROM YOUR iTUNES LIBRARY TO ANY DEVICE!!!

Apple Inc......GET A WRIGGLE ON!!! Rome wasn't built in a day.........if one pays for a service eg. Pay for music tracks from iTunes Store / iTunes Match to store entire 'personal 'music' library in iCloud..........then at the very least the basic requirements are that you should be able to get back what you've paid for in terms of music or service(s) offered! Apple Inc......you're skating between too many 'grey' areas which are now becoming deep gorges which you're unable to bridge the gap and simply providing 'defunct' Support 'Help Pages' simply won't cut-it.....you're pushing the boundaries!

Here's a YouTube link on how to do it without using iTunes.
I just did it and it finaly worked. I'm less stressed now 😝

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTsbdxRRVgI

You're a legend! 🙂

Apple Inc are a joke!

In iTunes 11.2.1 If you open up the application, and have your phone plugged in, just select the songs you want to add, right-click (or hold control on a mac) and in the pop-up menu go to "Add to Playlist" and select your phone.

This is really the dumbest thing I have seen Apple do. Why on earth would you make it harder than it was? Post Steve Apple I guess.

Had the same problem...songs grayed out on phone, etc. I use manually manage music as usual. The Fix: Do not back up to iCloud. As soon as I set it back to "this computer" i could drag and drop just fine.

Go f yourself apple.

I FIGURED IT OUT‼️

Just UNLOCK your phone when you sync or add your music manually... 🙂 it started copying my music as soon as i entered my passcode on my phone!!

Hope it works with you guys too 🙂

Totally agree Apple sort your **** out!!! After spending thousands of pounds on you're devises ensuring all my media is sourced from one place iTunes I've just spent another £30 on music from iTunes for a long drive I have to do today and now I'm unable to transfer these purchases onto my devises so I can listen to them. I don't have the time to sit at my computer ******* around THATS WHY I BY APPLE PRODUCTS!!!!

One very angry Apple customer.